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Task 1

Download this video like you did last week (it also can be found on your desktop) and answer the following the questions:
Answer in complete sentences.
  1. What is Gayla Bentley’s profession?
  2. What is the “void” in the market Gayla is trying to fill?
  3. What is the “modern woman” according to Gayla?
  4. What is the investment Gayla is hoping to get from the Sharks?
  5. What does Gayla want to do with the investment from the Sharks?
  6. What experience does Gayla have in the industry?
  7. What is Kevin’s opinion about demand, and how does it relate to Gayla’s business?
  8. What profit does Gayla make on the Italian wool jacket she makes?
  9. Where does Gayla sell her products?
  10. What are the sales?
  11. What is the problem that Kevin O’Leary is “stuck on,” that is, that he can’t understand?
  12. What is Barbara’s opinion of the clothes Gayla is selling?
  13. Why does Gayla want to open a retail store, and why does she want to open it in Houston?
  14. Why did Gayla turn the front part of her wholesale showroom into retail? What was the result of doing that?
  15. Why doesn’t Gayla get the money she needs from a bank?
  16. Why hasn’t Gayla signed a contract to do a deal with a home shopping TV network?
  17. Why does Gayla want to do an infomercial (* = information + commercial) on a home shopping network?
  18. What reasons does Gayla give as to why she thinks this an extraordinary opportunity for Daymond?
  19. What offer do Daymond and Barbara make?
  20. YOU are a shark. What offer (if any) would you make to Gayla. Explain your reasoning.

If you finish all of the above, go to the website and look at the prices and designs of some of the products they have.

Task 2

Download this video like you did last week (or find the video on your desktop) and answer the following questions:
Answer in complete sentences.

  1. What led Dan to create the new product? Explain.
  2. Why does he want the Sharks’ help?
  3. What investment is Dan seeking from the Sharks?
  4. How many calories does Chill Soda have? Compare this to other sodas.
  5. What is the ultimate leverage of success in the beverage market?
  6. What sales does Dan have so far?
  7. Who did Dan sell the Chill Soda to?
  8. Why does Daymond decide to go out?
  9. Why does Kevin Herrington (the guy next to Daymond) go out?
  10. Why does Robert go out?
  11. Why does Kevin O’Leary go out?
  12. What does Barbara like about Dan?
  13. What does Kevin O offer to give Barbara $20,000 for?
  14. What offer does Barbara make to Dan?
  15. What is Dan’s reaction at the end of the segment?

After you watch the video, go to the website and answer these questions:
  1. What flavors of Chill Soda are available?
  2. Look at the “Nutrition Facts” of Chill Soda. Search on google.com and find the Nutrition Facts for a can of Coca Cola.
    Compare the two.
  3. Go to the “did you know” section.
    1. How much soda do Americans drink each year?
    2. What benefits does Chill Soda have over other sodas?
    3. What did studies find out about diet sodas?
    4. What vitamins can be found in Chill Soda?
    5. Why have these vitamins been added?
  4. Go to the “about us” section. What is the slogan Chill is using?
  5. After watching the video and looking at the website, what is your opinion? If you were a shark, would you invest? How much would you invest in Chill Soda? Explain your reasons.